Indonesian Cultural Preference in Designing User Interface

摘要

Interface design is the first thing users can see when accessing website. First impression is presented here. If they feel interested, users will continue exploring website. But, if they feel not interested, users will leave website with negative impression. They will be reluctant to access the website in the future, because the first impression is not good. In order to design good and interesting interface design, there is no particular methods can be used to absolutely measure it. Measuring the interface design is closely related with the domain of social behavior. Each user has different perspective, which means has different taste of design. So far, there is no existing method that can be used to measure the taste of interface design accurately. Interface design tend to be measured subjectively. The only way to measure interface design is use usability principles, which is tend to focus on the interaction not to the interface design itself. Indonesia has there are 1331 tribes across the country which are have unique and richness of cul-tural ornament. Their ornament has known well by people because it had been applied into their various kinds of product, such as carving, clothes, and house. Finally, the purpose of this research aim to provide new idea about cultural preference in order to design the interface. At the end of this research, we offer methods which can be used to ensure the interface design based cultural is met with the usability principles.